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Patriot William David Neal[1, 2]

Male 1814 - 1867  (53 years)


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  • Name William David Neal 
    Title Patriot 
    Born 1814  Halifax County, Virginia Find all individuals with events at this location  [3
    Gender Male 
    Died 25 Jan 1867  Caswell County, North Carolina Find all individuals with events at this location 
    • Will probated April 1867 Caswell County, North Carolina
    Buried First Baptist Church Cemetery Yanceyville, North Carolina Find all individuals with events at this location  [4
    Person ID I17631  My Reynolds Line
    Last Modified 30 Oct 2021 

    Father Thomas Neal,   b. Abt 1761, Amelia Co., Virginia Colony Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 10 Apr 1824, Halifax Co., Virginia Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age ~ 63 years) 
    Mother Elizabeth Brown,   b. 1768, Prob. Mecklenburg Co., Virginia Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. Yes, date unknown 
    Married 1 Jan 1787  Mecklenburg Co., Virginia Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Family ID F7792  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family Sybil Yeaman,   b. 23 Aug 1807, Pittsylvania County, Virginia Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. Sep 1873, Caswell County, North Carolina Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 66 years) 
    Married 5 Oct 1835  Pittsylvania County, Virginia Find all individuals with events at this location 
    • John T Neal (1839 - 1864)
      Mary P. Neal Sledge (1840 - 1908)
      James William Neal (1844 - 1916)
    Children 
    +1. Private William Joseph Neal,   b. 13 Feb 1840, Pittsylvania County, Virginia Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 13 Feb 1913, Pittsylvania Co., Virginia Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 73 years)
    +2. Private John T. Neal,   b. 1839, Pittsylvania County, Virginia Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 25 May 1864, Caswell County, North Carolina Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 25 years)
     3. James William 'Bill' Neal,   b. 6 Jun 1844, Caswell Co., North Carolina Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 6 May 1916, Caswell County, North Carolina Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 71 years)
     4. George Washington Neal,   b. 1847, Pittsylvania Co., Virginia Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 1915, Rockingham, North Carolina Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 68 years)
    Last Modified 3 Nov 2021 
    Family ID F6342  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  • Documents
    Estate of William D. Neal probated April 1867
    Estate of William D. Neal probated April 1867
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    Estate of William David Neal dated April 1867 Caswell County, North Carolina
    Estate of William David Neal dated April 1867 Caswell County, North Carolina
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  • Sources 
    1. [S40] Will, http://interactive.ancestry.com/9061/004971233_00281?pid=474662&backurl=http://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?indiv%3D1%26db%3DUSProbateNC%26h%3D474662%26tid%3D%26pid%3D%26usePUB%3Dtrue%26usePUBJs%3Dtrue%26rhSource%3D1121&treeid=&personid=&hintid=&usePUB=true&usePUBJs=true#?imageId=004971233_00284.
      Estate of William D. Neal April 3, 1867 Caswell County, North Carolina

    2. [S32] Find-A-Grave.com, https://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=182216829.

    3. [S84] Rootsweb, http://newsarch.rootsweb.com/th/read/VAPITTSY/1999-08/0934925889.

      Children of Benjamine Dalton and Caty Mayhew are:
      i.Rebecca (Elizabeth) Dalton, born 1805 in Pittsylvania County, VA; died
      29 April 1882; married Jonathan Dalton 18 September 1826; born 1805 in
      Pittsylvania County, VA; died 17 June 1865 in Pittsylvania County, VA.
      6ii.Booker Dalton, born 1808; died 10 November 1889; married Elizabeth
      (Betsy) Owen 26 December 1831.
      iii.Cyrena Dalton, born February 1816; married William David Neal 12 March 1840; born 1814.
      iv.Anna Dalton, born 1817; died 18 December 1892; married John Pickral 15 July 1833; born 1818; died 09 February 1896.

    4. [S32] Find-A-Grave.com, https://findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GSln=neal&GSfn=william&GSbyrel=all&GSdy=1867&GSdyrel=in&GSob=n&GRid=182216829&df=all&.
      William David Neal
      Birth 31 Jul 1816, Halifax County, Virginia
      Death 25 Jan 1867, Caswell County, North Carolina
      Burial: First Baptist Church Cemetery
      Yanceyville, Caswell County, North Carolina
      William David Neal was the son of Thomas Neal and Elizabeth Brown. Thomas and Elizabeth married 01 Jan 1787 in Mecklenburg Co., VA. She was born in 1768, daughter of Thomas Brown, Sr. Thomas Neal was born in Amelia Co., VA, probably about 1761. He was the son of Roger Neal and Ann Hatchett. Thomas served in the Revolutionary War (War Record W5407). Thomas Neal died in Halifax Co., VA, on 10 Apr 1824. His will, dated 10 Dec 1823, was recorded in Halifax Co., VA, on 27 Sep 1824 (WB 13, p. 271). He names his wife Elizabeth and 9 children. His children are: Abraham H., Paschal P., Liza D., Roger B., Harriet W., A.M., Polly P., James A., and William David.

      George Washington Neal was the son of William David Neal and Sibyl Yeaman, who married in 1835 (Pittsylvania Co., VA, MB 1, p. 110). William David Neal was born 31 Jul 1815 in Halifax Co., VA, and died 25 Jan 1867 while living near Providence in Caswell Co., NC. Sibyl was born 23 Aug 1807 in Pittsylvania Co., VA, and died in Sept 1873 in Caswell Co., NC. The 1850 census for Pittsylvania Co., VA, lists William Neal and Sibyl with 5 children.
      Their children were: Harriet A.E. (01 Sep 1836), John T. (20 Mar 1838), Mary P. (1840), James William (1844), and George Washington (10 Aug 1847). Harriet A. E. Neal married William R. Ingram in Caswell Co., NC, on 10 Nov 1857. Her nephew John David Neal reported that her family moved to Missouri with several children. John T. Neal married Lucy A. Howard in Caswell Co., NC, on 11 Dec 1859. Lucy was the daughter of Alanson Howard and Susan Swift Shelton. Mary P. Neal married Crawford D. Sledge in Caswell Co., NC, on 05 Feb 1868. James William Neal married Sallie Belle Riddle in Campbell Co., VA, on 26 Nov 1895. They moved to Caswell Co., NC, and are buried in the Moon Creek Primitive Baptist Church Cemetery.
      William David Neal and Sibyl Yeaman married 05 October 1835 in Pittsylvania County, Virginia. Her father, John Yeaman, sent his written permission. Bondsman was her brother Isaac Yeaman. The 1850 census of Pittsylvania County, Virginia, lists William Neal, wife Sibyl and their five children. By 25 November 1852, when an accounting of Sibyl's father's estate was recorded, William David and family were living in North Carolina. John Yeaman's will was recorded in Pittsylvania County, Virginia on 15 November 1852. It was written in 1838, and names his daughter Sibbey Neal.
      Source: The Beaver Pond Neals of Virginia, Carl B. Neal (1965).

      "William David Neal died Jan. 25, 1867, and was buried in the cemetery at Yanceyville Baptist Church."


    5. [S32] Find-A-Grave.com, https://findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi/http=://www,findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=93378306.
      Neal, John T.: Private
      Birth: 1839
      Death: May 25, 1864
      son of William David Neal and Sibyl Yeaman
      Siblings:
      John T Neal (1839 - 1864)
      Mary P. Neal Sledge (1840 - 1908)
      James William Neal (1844 - 1916)


      Enlisted in Co. B on 7/8/1862 in Caswell Co. at age 23; born in 1838; son of William David Neal and Sibyl Yeaman; moved to Caswell Co., NC in late 1850; brother of James William "Bill" Neal, also of Co. B; on December 12, 1859 married Lucy A. Howard (died in childbirth on August 25, 1862); muster rolls list him serving as a courier to Gen. Wade Hampton Jan. 1864; died 5/25/1864 of typhoid fever, buried in Hollywood Cemetery, Richmond; his brother Bill raised his children after the war.

      [Neil Hunter Raiford, The 4th North Carolina Cavalry in the Civil War: A History and Roster]